Brian Foley

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” (From GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it’s more like an automobile. I’m finding t…

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greenish blue watercolor with white brain image and words YOU ARE SMARTER THAN AI

New algorithm watercolor, YOU ARE SMARTER THAN AI artologica.etsy.com/listing/4458... #sciart

The Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Biology/Science Education at the rank of Assistant Professor.

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#scienceeducation #biologyeducation #stemeducation #csun

A word cloud from the titles of ~1100 NSF grants that were terminated. The most frequent words are STEM, ADVANCE, Student, career, and engines.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.

It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

Powerful description of what makes science different from other sources of knowledge.

"But reality refuses to go quietly into the night." well said @sarahjeong.bsky.social

The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks The Passion of the Teacher Rings True | James Lincoln | TEDxTustin

AAPT Member, James Lincoln, gives a TEDx Talk on "The Passion of the Teacher Rings True." The video is free to watch and features experiments and a history of physics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArP7... #PhysicsEducation #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics

Excellent paper! But why not name the authors who are giving credibility to junk science? Their unethical behavior is a key element.

Cleaning the scientific house: Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting American science is under attack. Recent cuts to funding and staffing of federal agencies, layoffs of scientists, and rescission of billions of dollars in grants are unprecedented in US history and th...

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Let's blame stuff done by a handful of rich people on a whole generation.

Free Jonathan Caravello! BY HANK REICHMAN Dr. Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in mathematics and philosophy at California State University, Channel Islands, was beaten and arrested on Thursday, July 10, in an ICE raid on a …

ICE detained a CSUCI prof protesting peacefully. He wasremoving a tear gas canister from under a wheelchair. The feds say he was throwing tear gas at police. You can decide if you believe the consistently violent cops using chemical weapons or the philosophy prof
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The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

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They are saying the quiet part out loud again. We need to get ready.

#astrophotography

CSU did not 'adopt' chatgpt, they bought a subscription for a half million students ($30 each). It is too expensive - especially now that Gemini is free. But it was a smart move to engage with AI.

1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

Do you remember when maga would complain that there was no free speech in universities?

‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ The most persuasive "people" on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

The Atlantic talks about the unethical University of Zurich experiment on r/changemyview:
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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential. These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

This statement from the NSF is insane.

Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.

Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪

This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.

"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"

What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

Facebook post from Bret Bussman showing illustration of 'flat' earth and text "5 Reasons Why I BELIEVE in the Flat Earth (And You Should Too!)

NEW: Minnesota Republicans have elected a literal flat earther to a party leadership post. This is one of many flat earth Facebook posts by Bret Bussman, now the chair of the 7th District GOP. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/16/m...

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

AAPT is pleased to announce that the 2025 Paul Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching Award winner is Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, Science teacher at Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA. The award will be presented at #AAPTSM25. Read more ➡ ow.ly/vSgF50VwJX2 #AAPTAwards

Great choice - Bree is the best!